“And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”
She was pregnant and cried out in labor pains as she was about to give birth - the birth pangs evoke Isaiah's prophetic language of Zion's travail (Isa 26:17-18, 66:7). This cosmic woman represents not merely Mary, but Israel and the church in their travail of bringing forth the messianic age.
Church Fathers on Revelation 12:2
“And there was seen a great sign in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. And being with child, she cried out travailing, and bearing torments that she might bring forth.” The woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and wearing a crown of twelve stars upon her head, and travailing in her pains, is the ancient Church of fathers, and prophets, and saints, and apostles, which had the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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